P. Sherwin #5 - What constitutes a human act? - I - Ii, 6 - 21
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It's interesting: very often the word 'moral' is used in English in ways that want to describe something added to the human act.
But the moral act is simply the human act.
And the human act is that for which we are responsible.
It's something that is done with knowledge and love,
that is done with intellect and will.
It's a freely chosen informed act: the human act.
It's an act for which we are worthy either of praise or blame.
Every act is in the concrete and so every act has a value: for good or for evil.
So for Aquinas, the human act is simply an act that is done with knowledge and deliberation, knowledge and choice.
